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Jul 28, 2021 · While extremely privileged women had worn beetle-wing gowns to court in the 1830s, by the 1890s it seemed to be primarily the domain of the eccentric (if it ever was anything more than that in the first place). Oscar Wilde’s wife Constance Lloyd was written up in the papers for wearing a beetle-wing dress in 1886 (Libes 13).
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This shimmering emerald-green dress, embroidered with iridescent beetle-wing cases, was created for Shakespeare’s villainess, Lady Macbeth. It was worn by the famous actress Ellen Terry (1847–1928) at the opening of Macbeth at the Lyceum Theatre in London in December 1888.
Jan 12, 2024 · Alice Laura Comyns-Carr designed Beetle Wing Dress’ for Lady Macbeth and John Singer Sargent, “Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth,” 1889, oil on canvas, in “Fashioned by Sargent” at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2023 to 2024.
The dress was sewn with 1000 iridescent wings from the green Jewel Beetle Sternocera aequisignata. Terry kept the ‘beetle dress’ for the rest of her life and sometimes wore it on special occasions.
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Sep 9, 2019 · Season 3, Episode 3, of Harlots (2019) features a dress with a bodice embroidered with beetle wings, worn by Liv Tyler as Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam. The dress is made of a luscious emerald-colored fabric, with the stomacher and neckline embellished with gold embroidery and elytra.
Oct 8, 2023 · In portraits by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), sitters assume elegant stances, the fabric of their dress richly depicted in broad, sensuous strokes of paint. Sargent brought his subjects to life, but he did much more than simply record what appeared before him.
Mar 29, 2011 · The dress was created for famed Shakespearean actress Ellen Terry’s portrayal of Lady Macbeth and was immortalized by American painter John Singer Sargent in an 1889 portrait now in London’s Tate Gallery.
